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Southronadj.n.Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: southern adj. Etymology: Originally a variant of southern adj. (see β. forms at southern adj. and n.1 and compare quots. below), distinguished in form in the senses below, probably with influence from Saxon n. or Briton n.For examples of the (rare and chiefly northern) late Middle English sothron , variant of southern adj., in other senses compare the following (in quot. 1483 mistakenly glossing classical Latin boreālis boreal adj.):?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 117 Sothronwode [1483 BL Add. 89074 Sothren wod]..Armenicus.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 349 Sothron, borialis. Also attested earlier as a surname: Robert le Sotherun (1297), Hugo le Sotheron (1328), etc., chiefly in records from the north of England. Originally Scottish and English regional ( northern). A. adj. 1. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective] 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 494 Or Sothron men suld sege him in that place. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 664 Then ferdly fled full mony Sotheroun syr. 1570 (c1478) Hary (Lekprevik) iii. f. 21 Twentie and nyne yai left into that steid, Of Sutheroun men, that bryttinit wat to deid. 1643 (single sheet) Let..No Sutheron rogues, nor viperous Scots entise Your martiall minde to staine your honour more, By holding out, as you have done before. 1722 W. Hamilton iv. i. 58 The Teth they cross'd, and the clear-running Ern, The Motions of their Southeron Foes to learn. 1786 R. Burns 211 Where glorious Wallace Aft bure the gree..Frae Suthron billies. 1810 J. Porter III. vi. 143 When the Southron lords delegate a messenger to me. 1892 8 Oct. 475/1 Church politics..still possess an interest for Scotland which is perfectly amazing to the Southron observer. 1920 H. Maxwell in F. Francis p. v Southron readers kindly note that Loch Awe is sounded to rhyme with ‘how’ not with ‘haw’. 1979 P. O'Brian ii. 64 Thon southron loons didna ken cleanliness. 2006 C. J. Sansom 547 Cocky southron knave. Tha thinkest since fat Harry is coming tha can insult usas tha likest. 1836 W. Drayton xxii. 280 Every southron heart cherishes the same stern and inflexible resolution. 1845 R. Ford I. xi. 773 The wants and wishes of a credulous southron people. 1961 K. Rexroth 76 I have always said of the leading Beat novelist that he has exactly the attitude toward the American Negro that any redneck gallus-snapping Southron chauvinist has. 1987 W. Percy (1988) ii. ii. 94 Southron fascist rednecks. 2. the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [adjective] 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 10 To se thame sched the byrnand Sothroun blude. 1570 (c1478) Hary (Lekprevik) v. 930 On Sutheroun syde full greit slauchter þai maid. 1571 in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xxv. 48 By slicht & suddrone bloud. 1722 W. Hamilton vii. iii. 161 The Suthron Pride perhaps we then may quell. 1729 J. Harvey i. 36 Once more I'll dare to meet the South'ron Force. 1807 Ld. Byron iii Why did I quit my Highland cave..To seek a Sotheron home! 1858 T. B. Macaulay II. vii. 183 The French monarchy was to him..what the Southron [earlier edd. southern] domination was to Wallace. 1891 J. M. Barrie II. xxv. 178 A southron mode of speech. 2009 S. F. King 345 These crimes deserve severe consequences,..glowing iron and boiling water or worse,—so the guards warn me, if the king follows southron custom in this matter. the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > southern states 1829 III. 1118 They hated Mr. Adams, for the simplicity of his republican manners, and were opposed to him because he moved not with the splendor of a Southron equipage. 1891 Southron, pertaining or belonging to the southern United States. 1904 H. M. Wharton 279 The Southron slogan [is] their requiem stern. 1987 24 May 1/2 He has never entirely landed his mind's eye throughout his busy, happy, and, truth to tell, muscularly Southron career. 2001 K. Hellekson ii. 36 He eventually falls in with a crowd of radical intellectuals and joins them..as a historian specializing in the War of Southron Independence. B. n. 1. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 304 Bot othir a Scot wald do a Sothroun teyn Or he till him. 1615 P. Gordon sig. Tiiii The strength was wune no southeron their did stay. 1722 W. Hamilton iv. iii. 63 Mean Time the Southerons did corrupt the Maid With Gold, to have him when he came, betray'd. 1771 J. Macpherson 129 The appellation of Southerons and Norlands are not hitherto totally extinguished among the Scots. 1799 J. Grahame ii. iv. 32 Let no man's point return this day unstained—Move like a bulging wave, unbroken, close, Silent, until ye dash upon the Southrons! 1810 J. Porter I. ii. 51 The Southrons are at the gates, and we shall be lost. 1879 T. H. Huxley 40 These same Southrons added a passionate admiration for Lord Chatham. 1928 S. C. Chew (rev. ed.) ii. 48 Farfrae, Henchard's Scotch steward and presently his rival, is unconvincingly drawn. Hardy knows his Southron; he does not know the Scot. 1996 A. Calder in H. Ritchie 238 As the only English character in the film, this creep might be taken to represent all the ‘colonisers’, the Southrons who manipulate and control Scotland. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 270 Sothroun to sla he thinkis it na syne. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 188 He saw the Sothroun multipliand mayr. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius (1858) III. 499 Syne on ane nycht that ilk traduct he brak, Quhair that thair enterit efter at his bak Richt mony sutheron with him that he led. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 667 in (1931) I. 163 Quhen that the Sutheroun saw his micht, Effrayitlie thay tuke the flicht. 1722 W. Hamilton vii. i. 137 The Suthron to their Quarters now repair. a1795 Outlaw Murray xxii, in F. J. Child (1894) V. ix. 192/1 Frae Soudron I this forest wan. 1820 W. Scott I. iv. 144 But wha is to haud back the Southron, then? 1849 T. B. Macaulay (ed. 5) II. vi. 130 In Ireland Scot and Southron were strongly bound together by their common Saxon origin. 2002 R. J. Moll in R. A. McDonald 135 By recalling recent internal conflict within Scotland, Hary focuses the attention of the reader on the need for a united realm which is free not only from the influence of the Southron, but also from civil discord. the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1957) i. Prol. l. 111 Kepand na sudron bot our awyn langage, And spekis as I lernyt quhen I was page. 1563 N. Winȝet (S.T.S.) I. 138 I am nocht acquyntit with ȝour Southeroun. 1581 J. Hamilton Quest. sig. Vviii Iames the fyft..hering ane of his subiectis knap suddrone, declarit him ane trateur. 2. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of 1828 9 Nov. I am a Republican in principle, and a Southron in feeling. 1848 J. R. Bartlett App. s.v. He will prevent the nomination of Gen. Butler, or any other Southron. 1878 126 84 The Southron was a better fighter than the Northerner. 1882 Apr. 895/2 It is at length the aim of the Southron to out-Yankee to Yankees. 1930 L. S. Stewart xxvii. 454 The worthless Confederate bonds and currency with which the conquered ‘Southron’ might pay for the upkeep of his land in requited labor. 1976 48 303 The affection of Lyndon Johnson for his beagles is but one recent notable testimonial to the esteem in which Southrons have held the breed. 2007 (Nexis) 22 Apr. You don't have to be a rabid, die-hard, unreconstructed Southron to appreciate the history of the Civil War. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > southern people > person 1857 E. C. Gaskell II. ii. 39 Those nearer to the spot..were sure, from the..accuracy of the writing, that the writer was no Southeron. 1868 H. H. Milman 48 The Southron [sc. an Italian legate] was to spend his winter in cold London. 1891 J. Winsor 658 The wisdom in their employment of the aborigines was as eminent as with the Southrons [sc. Spaniards] it was lacking. 1922 G. Langford xviii. 139 Kutnar knew that it was not a sight of the southrons nor their flint workmanship that he really craved. 1996 (Nexis) 16 Feb. The Good King of Ottawa..saves the day and sends the southrons packing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1488 |